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Culture & Media

Bleisure

Identified by LS:N Global in 2009, Bleisure – business + leisure – refers to the increasingly blurred lines in consumers’ lives between work and play.

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Technology

Sam Hill: Living augmented lives

Experiential design agency PAN Studio co-founder Sam Hill discusses augmented lives and personalities.

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Technology

British Millennials interested in technology that helps them disconnect

A new study by The Future Laboratory has found that Millennials are the generation most eager to use technology to cut down on digital distractions.

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Culture & Media

Social Singles

Being alone has never felt less lonely. With more ways than ever to connect online, laptops, smartphones and tablets have become the only tools you need to be part of a crowd. Social media sites encourage you to share every facet of your life online and technologies such as Face Time and Instant Messenger enhance the intimacy of online interaction.

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Fashion

Transmedia Futures

New platforms and behaviours are replacing linear media – these shifts are creating a networked system where the consumer, rather than the publisher or broadcaster, is king. This report will explain how your brand can thrive in a Transmedia Future.

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Marketing & Branding

The Tomorrow Store

When everyone can get everything online, and can buy from your competitors even when they’re in your store, how can you make sure your customers keep spending money with your brand?

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APAC

Augmented retail

As reported in Always-on Living in the Trend Drivers section of the Tomorrow Store consumers now shop on, with and through their devices – even in physical stores. Brands are responding by augmenting their real-world retail with technology that makes the retail experience more social, interactive and immersive.

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Food & Drink

Conviviality Culture

People are realising that the most exciting thing they can do is not online, updating their social network page. It is offline, experiencing the unmitigated magic of a live event.

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Retail

Internet a norm for nearly half of Chinese consumers

Internet a norm for nearly half of Chinese consumers